{"id":19092,"date":"2011-11-04T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=19092"},"modified":"2011-11-04T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:03:43","slug":"favorite-weather-ipad-apps-seamanship-and-we-ought-to-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/favorite-weather-ipad-apps-seamanship-and-we-ought-to-know-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Weather Ipad Apps, Seamanship, and We Ought To Know Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the photo above, taken in the lagoon adjacent to Cape Lookout in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, you can see there is a bit of breeze. In fact, this breeze woke us up at 0400 with the wind shift, meter high waves, and bumping the bottom wih the keel. Coastal cruising, in a country with as much weather data as the USA, there is no excuse for getting caught by weather, We’ll come back to this subject and preparation for adverse situations, later.<\/p>\n

Right now we want to chat about a couple of inexpensive IPad Apps that work really well f or local weather.<\/p>\n

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We’ll start with “My Radar”. If you have a GPS equipped IPad it knows where you are, and shares this information with various Apps. My Radar knows the position and sends you radar for that area in a scale you choose. The green band is a front in the Northeast US that had brought snow to assist with Halloween celebrations.<\/p>\n

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The second app is BuoyData.com. It has a database of weather buoys world wide. If you want to know what the weather is actually doing, click on a buoy in the area of interest.<\/p>\n

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This screen shows you the closest buoys which have weather and wave data.<\/p>\n

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There are a series of links to useful pages such as this one with hourly historic data.<\/p>\n

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Which you can also look at graphically.<\/p>\n

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The most recent information looks like this (it is windy and cold as we are writing this).<\/p>\n

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There is also a local radar display.<\/p>\n

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Finally, there is a link to the local weather forecast.<\/p>\n

These two Apps are in constant use aboard Wind Horse.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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